Darrell Ubick
Darrell Ubick (birth name Darko Ljubić ; born March 29, 1952 in Dubrovnik , Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian - American arachnologist at the California Academy of Sciences .
Childhood and youth
Darko Ljubić spent the first years of his childhood in the nearby Dubrovnik villages of Ston on the Pelješac peninsula and Šipanska Luka on the island of Šipan . The family emigrated to California in 1960 and settled in San Francisco in 1961 . Darrell Ubick was already interested in insects and arachnids as a child and met his future colleague Thomas S. Briggs as a teacher in high school .
education
Ubick spent the summer of 1972 at a research station at the American Museum of Natural History in the Chiricahua Mountains , Arizona . There he met the American arachnologists Willis John Gertsch and Vincent D. Roth and studied spiders. He later studied entomology at San José State University in California . In 1976 he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree and in 1980 his Master’s degree .
research
From 1981, conducted research Ubick with Tom Briggs of the systematics of Phalangodidae , a family of harvestmen . Ubick works in the Department of Entomology at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. He wrote initial descriptions for numerous genera and species of arachnids.
Dedication names (selection)
- Cesonia ubicki Platnick & Shadab, 1980
- Zelotes ubicki Platnick & Shadab, 1983
- Synemosyna ubicki Cutler, 1988
- Araneus ubicki Levi, 1991
- Talanites ubicki Platnick & Ovtsharenko, 1991
- Cicurina ubicki Gertsch, 1992
- Tuberochernes ubicki Muchmore, 1997
- Agra ubicki Erwin, 2002
- Calileptoneta ubicki Ledford, 2004
- Heterometrus ubicki Kovarik, 2004
- Tidarren ubickorum Knoflach & van Harten, 2006
Publications
- Darrell Ubick and Charles E. Griswold: The Malagasy goblin spiders of the new genus Malagiella (Araneae, Oonopidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 356. American Museum of Natural History, New York 2011, online .
- Darrell Ubick, et al. (Ed.): Spiders of North America. An identification manual. Second edition. American Arachnological Society, Keene, New Hampshire 2017, ISBN 978-0-9980146-0-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Darrell Ubick on the website of the Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , accessed on November 20, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ubick, Darrell |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ljubić, Darko (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Croatian-American arachnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dubrovnik , Yugoslavia |